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Jimmy Settle

Gannett Tennessee

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CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — Officials have confirmed the process of recruiting workers for the first open positions at Hankook Tire in Clarksville will begin this week. Most of those jobs will be of the white-collar variety, with production hiring to come later.

Marla Rye, president of Clarksville-based Workforce Essentials Inc., said the Korean human resources team from Hankook will begin recruitment this week, and the company’s hiring team will arrive in the United States by mid- to late April. They will work out of temporary offices in the Clarksville-Montgomery County Corporate Business Park until the 1.5 million-square-foot plant is built in a few years.

The Clarksville plant will be the company’s first in North America.

The Hankook startup staff will be divided into teams — to include human resources, engineering, acccounting and other departments — and local officials said they will spearhead construction of the plant while simultaneously being trained in the tire manufacturing process.

Rye said the first hiring phase will bring in managerial, administrative and engineering employees for the Clarksville plant. Hiring for production employees will occur later.

State website only

Hankook’s HR team will announce all of the open positions through www.Jobs4TN.gov.

All applications and resumes will be reviewed and accepted through that state website only, Rye said. Hankook is not accepting any paper applications, nor is it accepting any applications or resumes through its international company website.

Rye said the Hankook HR team will be accepting applications for the initial positions for three weeks. The positions will close after the review period for applicant screening.

A time frame has yet to be determined for assessments, interviews, applicant notification and initial interviews. However, Hankook Tire officials have determined these first hires will be key to the successful startup of the plant, so applicants who pass initial screening should expect to be contacted soon.

When completed by 2018, Hankook hopes to have hired about 200 administrative staff and 1,600 manufacturing staff, for a total of 1,800 people.